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teeronline
Inspiring
November 17, 2013
Question

How to create a dropDown Cart menu like Walmart.com?

  • November 17, 2013
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Hi,

Please look at walmart.com and their dropdown cart menu?I found it very neat and I want to create something like that on Flash where should I start? Is there a tutorial or template that would create similar result?

http://www.walmart.com/

Is there a professional tutorial for making a dropdown menu like that with all the funtions everything, does anyone know?

I'm trying to make one but it seems very difficult, I think with a professional sample would speed things up a lot.

Thank you.

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Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Legend
November 17, 2013

If you right click that page and choose View Source you will be able to see how it is done, though it might be very difficult to see as well since it is alot of code (HTML) jammed together, likely dynamically generated via a database and displayed via CSS/javascript.

To do something like this in Flash you would need to create Sprites/MovieClips that you hide/show based on mouse interactions with objects (buttons, etc).  If you can find any tutorial on a drop down menu in Flash it miight be a good starting point for you since this menu seems to behave somewhat similarly to any other, it just has more size to it.

T
teeronlineAuthor
Inspiring
November 18, 2013

Hi, Ned. Thank you for the reply, you're absolutely right it could be rather difficult to trace aftert jammed together code in html and convert it to as3..

To start I can't really decide or see what's pro and con to make cart menu with cookie for tempt saves or use database for tempt saves, plus if going the dbase way every time an item added it save to dbase and how dbase suppose to construct..?

It would indeed be very helpful if there is a standard tutorials to get a base concept how to construct it then build/customize upon it..

Thank you.

Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
Legend
November 18, 2013

As far as Flash goes, what is retrieved from a database is very often converted to xml by a server-side processing file (like a PHP file).  Flash is able to work directly with xml files, so having the PHP file echo the data back to the Flash file in xml format is commonly done.

In your case you could just use an xml file to begin with.

If you search Google using terms like "AS3 drop down menu tutorial" that should lead you to several results that should be help for you. 

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